Just Looking, Thanks.

I’ve heard about The Little Italy of the Bronx for several years now, as one of my clients gives a couple of walking tours there each year.  I maintain the web site for her, so I’m familiar with the tour descriptions.  So, I’ve had it on my back burner list of things to see at some point, but as every venture into the city seems to bring me only to Manhattan, Arthur Ave seemed to be stuck on my back burner.

I was talking with one of my new clients about restaurants as we sat over lunch in Darien a few weeks ago. He was a bit surprised that I knew exactly where to eat down in a town more than 30 minutes from my house, and I confessed (more…)

The Grand Doodle

I’ve been slowly putting together a digital audio workstation so I can start working on my own recordings. I’m using Cubase 4, a Presonus Firebox audio interface, a Presonus Faderport controller, Steinberg’s The Grand for my piano virtual instrument, and a Korg SP-250 keyboard. I just purchased some NHT M-00 active studio monitors (and the NHT S-20 sub) which I’ve heard great things about, but FedEx isn’t due to deliver them until sometime next week. So, for now I’m still using headphones, which actually work pretty well. (more…)

Winter Bliss

OK, so after I got back from Europe, things got pretty busy.  I guess that’s to be expected when you take 5 weeks away from your business!  So it’s taken me 5 months to catch up on those 5 weeks, but I’m finally back at my blog, and hope to keep it up a bit more now.  For now, here’s a quick recap of the past few months…

I flew back from Europe on August 26th and began working the next day.  My first day back, I stayed up til 2:15.  So much for jet lag!

September – November mostly involved work, though I did squeeze in 3 trips to (more…)